The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Random House TradeISBN-13:9780345405012ISBN-10:345405013UPC:9780345405012Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Modern, Social History, Wars & ConflictsBook Topic:20th Century, World War ISize:8.20 x 5.40 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.15Product ID:SCR4RDR6N4
The classic account of the lead-up to World War I, told with "a rare combination of impeccable scholarship and literary polish" (The New York Times)--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Guns of August During the fateful quarter century leading up to World War I, the climax of a century of rapid, unprecedented change, a privileged few enjoyed Olympian luxury as the underclass was "heaving in its pain, its power, and its hate." In The Proud Tower, Barbara W. Tuchman brings the era to vivid life: the decline of the Edwardian aristocracy; the Anarchists of Europe and America; Germany and its self-depicted hero, Richard Strauss; Diaghilev's Russian ballet and Stravinsky's music; the Dreyfus Affair; the Peace Conferences in The Hague; and the enthusiasm and tragedy of Socialism, epitomized by the assassination of Jean Jaurès on the night the Great War began and an epoch came to a close. The Proud Tower, The Guns of August, and The Zimmermann Telegram comprise Barbara W. Tuchman's classic histories of the First World War era.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Random House TradeISBN-13:9780345405012ISBN-10:345405013UPC:9780345405012Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Modern, Social History, Wars & ConflictsBook Topic:20th Century, World War ISize:8.20 x 5.40 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.15Product ID:SCR4RDR6N4
Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989) achieved prominence as a historian with The Zimmermann Telegram and international fame with The Guns of August--a huge bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Her other works include Bible and Sword, The Proud Tower, Stilwell and the American Experience in China (for which Tuchman was awarded a second Pulitzer Prize), Notes from China, A Distant Mirror, Practicing History, The March of Folly, and The First Salute.
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